User:Stevan Harnad

STEVAN HARNAD http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad was born in Hungary, did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at Princeton University. He is currently Professor in Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton University, UK and Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science at Universite du Quebec a Montreal. His research is on categorisation, communication and cognition. Founder and Editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences http://www.bbsonline.org/ (a paper journal published by Cambridge University Press), he is Past President of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, External Member of the Hungarian Academy of Science, and author and contributor to over 250 publications, including Origins and Evolution of Language and Speech (NY Acad Sci 1976), Lateralization in the Nervous System (Acad Pr 1977), Peer Commentary on Peer Review: A Case Study in Scientific Quality Control (CUP 1982), Categorical Perception: The Groundwork of Cognition (CUP 1987), The Selection of Behavior: The Operant Behaviorism of BF Skinner: Comments and Consequences (CUP 1988), Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing (1995) and Essays on the Foundations and Fringes of Cognition (in prep).